Welcome to Hourglass Press!

Born of a desire to bring people together with book-based gifts and activities -- be it the joy of cooking with family or the fun of playing with friends on game night -- we create products that satisfy.

Karen Matsu Greenberg, a graduate of UC Berkeley and NYU's Publishing Institute, fine-tuned her expertise of product packaging during her early years in New York. As production director for Barnes & Noble Publishing, she managed a $70M manufacturing program. Since opening in 2010, Hourglass Press has delivered custom books, proprietary product, and trade books & gifts to a variety of clients throughout the world.

Activity / ColoringTo The Moon and To The Ocean Deep, Illustrated by Sarah Yoon, both launched with Laurence King Publshing in Spring of 2016. Introducing a unique, accordion-style, never-seen-before-format and coloring art that is sure to excite people of all ages. Dover's Creative Haven coloring book series continued to expand with Mary and Javier Agredo's beautiful Hamsa Art, Fractals in Nature, Animal Calaveras and their latest, Phenomenal Fractals.

CraftsTraditional Japanese Origami, with folds and artwork by Nick Robinson, has 10 fun folds and 80 gorgeous folding paper that was voted best new gift item at BEA 2015.Geometric Origami expands this gorgeous gift series. Thank You Notes for Kids is an activity kit that subtly teaches gratitude while the user creates beautiful craft-cards.

Paper FoldingGigantic Paper Planes glides into view with terrific, over-sized patterned paper. With 16 flying-plane designs and 128 exciting patterned papers and blueprint-style instructions, Amazing Paper Planes, has a runway to land your planes, and is packed in a re-usable box. Fabulous Shoes, 10 Paper Crafts to Make and Adore by Heather Drake, invites the paper-folding-artist in each of us go wild making glam shoes.

IllustratedRon Steinman's The Soldiers' Story, An Illustrated Edition is packed with over 500 images from Washington D.C.'s National Archives, delivering a sensitive and personal reflection of the Vietnam War.

We have lots of exciting entertainment ideas in development! Speak with us about our products, or ways in which we can work together to customize items for your future.

Featured

March 29, 2016

“the might of a major, and the creativity of an independent.”​Hourglass Press is proud to be aligned as a packager of book-based-gifts for Quarto. Read the Publishers Weekly article about Quarto Group Here.

March 16, 2016

Laurence King recently said in an interview with PW, “We helped create the coloring book trend,” and “I’d like to lead it somewhere new . . . appealing to younger audiences”Hourglass Press is excited to be part of Laurence King Publishing's expansion into a totally new format with our titles, TO THE MOON and TO THE OCEAN DEEP!

Customer Product Reviews

5 stars Gourmet Pizza Made Easy is a great giftLaura Banford"Being transplanted New Yorkers, my family really misses good pizza. I found a fun, easy way to make it at home with this pizza making kit. It's also a great gourmet gift for the holidays! The kit comes with peel, stone, pizza cutter and a full-color book. It's a steal at $34.95! (The peel alone is worth that much.)"

5 stars Fabulous Shoes 20 Paper Creations to Make and AdoreSo much funNYC Mom"It was great fun putting together these paper shoes. Pretty easy to put together and didn't take long. They are really cute and colorful."

5 stars AMAZING Dessert Party Kit!!!"I love this Baking Kit, is has all you need to learn and make cakes, cake pops, cupcakes and cookies. Thanks for making this product, its a great gift too."